If you don't care about electricity/thermals, midtier 95w 4core chips from 2011 are still plenty fast. If you do care about energy, then Intel gets better every

If you don't care about electricity/thermals, midtier 95w 4core chips from 2011 are still plenty fast. If you do care about energy, then Intel gets better every year, with 5w tdp-down i7 chips coming out.